Wotton House in Surrey has launched a new outdoor meeting concept designed to take corporate events beyond the traditional boardroom.

The new BBQ Boardroom combines meetings, dining and outdoor experiences within the hotel's estate, offering businesses an alternative setting for team meetings, strategy days and corporate away days.

Centred around Wotton House's Garden Kitchen, the concept can accommodate up to 100 delegates and has been designed as a fully functioning meeting environment rather than simply an outdoor dining space.

Meetings Move Outdoors

The BBQ Boardroom includes integrated AV and Wi-Fi, allowing businesses to deliver presentations and structured meeting sessions while making use of the hotel's extensive grounds for breakout sessions and informal discussions.

Delegates can move between focused meeting time and outdoor activities throughout the day, with the surrounding estate providing additional opportunities for team building and networking.

Food forms an important part of the concept, with the Garden Kitchen providing an interactive barbecue experience and incorporating produce grown on the Wotton House estate.

The space can also be hired exclusively and incorporated into wider residential programmes at the hotel, allowing companies to combine meetings, accommodation, dining and team activities within one location.

A Different Approach to the Corporate Away Day

The launch reflects a wider move towards corporate events that combine productive meeting time with opportunities for teams to connect away from their usual working environment.

While traditional conference and meeting rooms remain an important part of the corporate events market, venues are increasingly developing spaces that allow organisers to build more experiential elements into their programmes.

At Wotton House, the BBQ Boardroom sits alongside the hotel's established collection of meeting and event spaces, providing organisers with another option for programmes that need something less conventional.

Its combination of meeting facilities, outdoor space, food and activities makes it particularly suited to company away days, leadership meetings, team building, strategy sessions and corporate retreats.

Corporate Events at Wotton House

Set within a 13-acre estate in the Surrey countryside, Wotton House is an established meetings and events venue with a range of indoor and outdoor spaces and on-site accommodation.

The addition of the BBQ Boardroom further expands the ways in which businesses can use the estate, particularly for events where bringing teams together and encouraging interaction is as important as the formal agenda.

For companies looking to move away from a conventional meeting room without sacrificing the facilities required for a professional corporate event, it offers an interesting new option.